AUTHOR: Adanson, Michel (1727-1806)
TITLE-PAGE TRANSCRIPTION: A | VOYAGE | TO | SENEGAL, | THE | ISLE OF GOREE, | AND THE | RIVER GAMBIA. | [rule 72 mm.] | By M. ADANSON, | Correspondent of the Royal Academy of | Sciences. | [rule 72 mm.] | Mediis in finibus orbis, | Sol ubi. | [rule 72 mm.] | Translated from the FRENCH. | With Notes by an English Gentleman, who resided | some Time in that Country. | [rule 72 mm.] | LONDON: | Printed for J. NOURSE in the Strand, and | W. JONHSTON [sic] in Ludgate-street. 1759.
COLLATION: 8º: A8 (-A8) B-Y8 Z2 (-Z2) [$4 signed] pp. [i]-xiii, [1], 1-337, [1]
CONTENTS: p. [i]. Title page. p. iii. The translator's preface. p. xii. Extract from the registers of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Dec. the 4th, 1756. p. [xiv]. Advertisement. p. 1. Text. p. [338]. Errata.
ILLUSTRATIONS: Folded map opposite Title page: A general map. of Senegal corrected and improved with several particulars by Mr. Adanson, correspondent of the royal Academy of Sciences. Drawn and executed by Philip Buache 1756.
BINDING: Brown mottled leather binding, brown leather spine label, marbled ends and endpapers.
KEYWORDS: 1. Senegal.
LOCATION: DT549.A22 1759
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